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2010 R & D 100 Award Winners
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 1:27pm
R&D Magazine
2010
R&D 100 Winners
The 2010 R&D 100 Award Winners are listed below in alphabetical order by the name of the primary developer company.
Primary Developer |
2010 R&D 100 Winning Technology (Category) |
Co-developers/Contributors |
| Affinity Biosensors, USA | ARCHIMEDES Particle Metrology System (Analytical Instruments) | Innovative Micro Technology |
| Ames National Laboratory, USA | osgBullet (Software) | Skew Matrix Software National Energy Technology Laboratory Idaho National Laboratory US Army Armament Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC) |
| Anasys Instruments, USA | nanoIR (Analytical Instruments) | |
| ap2e, France | ProCeas Trace Gas Analyzer (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Applied Nanotech, Inc., USA | Cu-iJ70 Copper Ink (Materials Sciences) | |
| Argonne National Laboratory, USA | Hard X-ray Mini Beam Quad Collimator System (Beam Instruments) | Life Sciences Institute of University of Michigan |
| Argonne National Laboratory, USA | The ? Steradian Transmission X-ray Detection System for Nanoscale Analysis in Electron Microscopes and Electron Optical Beam Lines (Beam Instruments) | |
| Ascension Technology Corporation, USA | 3D Guidance System for Image-guided Navigation (Three Models: 3D Guidance trakSTAR, 3D Guidance driveBAY and 3D Guidance medSAFE) (Life Sciences) | |
| Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., USA | Flexible Monolithically Integrated Copper-Indium-Gallium-diSelenide (CIGS) Photovoltaic Modules on Polyimide Substrates (Energy Technologies) | ITN Energy Systems, Inc. |
| Asylum Research Company, USA | Ztherm Modulated Thermal Analysis (Analytical Instruments) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Aurora SFC Systems, Inc., USA | SFC Fusion A5 (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Automated Precision Inc., USA | Volumetric Error Compensation (VEC) (Mechanical Devices) | Automated Precision Siemens Automation Mag Cincinnati Boeing Phantom Works National Center for Manufacturing Sciences |
| Butterfly Haptics LLC, USA | Maglev 200 Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interface (Information Technologies) | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, Germany | VivaTome (Imaging Technologies) | Aurox Ltd |
| CellASIC Corp., USA | ONIX Microfluidic Perfusion System (Life Sciences) | |
| Ciena Corporation, USA | Ciena's 100G Coherent Optical Solution (Communication Technologies) | |
| Epic Communications, Inc., Taiwan, ROC | FM2491_FC, Complete Flip-Chip Wireless Front-End Integrated Circuit (FEIC) (Electric Devices) | |
| Equilateral Technologies Inc. , USA | AerialView (Software) | |
| MAKO Surgical Corp., USA | RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System (Life Sciences) | Farm Design, Inc. |
| Fluxion Biosciences, USA | IonFlux HT (Life Sciences) | |
| Frito Lay North America, USA | SunChips Compostable Packaging (Materials Sciences) | Natureworks SKC Films Toray Plastics America Bryce |
| IBM Corporation, USA | IBM InfoSphere Streams (System S) (Software) | U.S. Department of Defense |
| IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland | Zone Trusted Information Channel (ZTIC) (Communication Technologies) | |
| Idaho National Laboratory, USA | Supercritical/Solid Catalyst (SSC) Biodiesel Production Process (Environmental Technologies) | |
| Idaho National Laboratory, USA | MicroSight (Consumer Products) | |
| Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, ROC | i2/3DW, The Next-generation 3D Display Technology with Integral 2D and 3D for the Naked Eye (Electronic Instrumentation) | |
| Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, ROC | Flexible Universal Plane for Displays, FlexUPD (Electronic Instrumentation) | |
| Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, ROC | REDDEX: The Fire Resistant Supercomposite (Materials Sciences) | |
| INFICON, Germany | INFICON T-Guard Leak Detection Sensor (Lab Equipment) | |
| Intel Corporation, USA | Intel 32nm Process Technology (Process Sciences) | |
| JEOL USA, Inc., USA | ClairScope (JASM-6200) (Imaging Technologies) | JEOL Ltd. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
| Keyence Corporation, USA | VHX-1000 Digital Microscope (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA | Home Energy Saver/Hohm (Software) | Microsoft Corp. |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA | Chemicals on Demand (Materials Sciences) | University of California, Berkeley |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA | Rough Silicon Nanowires for Waste Heat Utilization (Materials Sciences) | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA | APPELS: Differentially Pumped Ambient Pressure PhotoElectron Lens Systems for Photoemission Studies (Lasers and Photonics) | SPECS GmbH Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA | XFEL Energy Monitor (Beam Instruments) | |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA | High-Performance Strontium Iodide Scintillator for Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy (Beam Instruments) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fisk University Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Transformational & Applied Research Directorate |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA | MEMS-based Adaptive-Optics Optical Coherence Tomography (Life Sciences) | University of California, Davis Indiana University, School of Optometry Boston Micromachines Corp. |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA | Statistical Radiation Detection System (SRaDS) (Software) | ICx Technologies, Inc. |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA | Ultrapermeable Carbon Nanotube Membranes (Materials Sciences) | Porifera, Inc., |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA | GATOR (Grating Actuated Transient Optical Recorder): A Diagnostic System Designed to Capture Sequential Images of a Miniature Star in Trillionth's of a Second (Lasers and Photonics) | |
| LI-COR Biosciences, USA | LI-7700 Open Path Methane Analyzer (Environmental Technologies) | Southwest Sciences Inc. |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | Ultrasonic Algal Biofuel Harvester (Environmental Technologies) | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | DAAFox Environmentally-friendly Secondary Explosive (Materials Sciences) | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | MOXIE: Movies of eXtreme Imaging Experiments (Imaging Technologies) | Varian Medical Systems, Security and Inspection Products MikroSystems National Security Technologies Bicron-Saint-Gobain Crystals |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | Ultraconductus (Process Sciences) | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | Solution Deposition Planarization (SDP) Superconductor Substrate Preparation Process (Process Sciences) | Sandia National Laboratories |
| M4 Sciences LLC, USA | TriboMAM (Mechanical Devices) | Purdue University, School of Industrial Engineering |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, USA | Digital-pixel Focal Plane Array (DFPA) (Electrical Devices) | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, USA | Lincoln Laboratory Miniaturized Radio Frequency (mini-RF) Four-Channel Receiver (Communication Technologies) | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, USA | Runway Status Lights (RWSL) (Safety and Security) | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, USA | Sub-wavelength-Separated Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector Array (Lasers and Photonics) | MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, USA | Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiode (GM APD) Focal Plane Array (FPA) (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mobility Lab, USA | The Leveraged Freedom Chair (Mechanical Devices) | |
| MicroPhage, Inc., USA | MicroPhage MRSA/MSSA Blood Culture Test (Life Sciences) | Colorado School of Mines |
| Microsonic Systems Inc., USA | HENDRIX SM100 Ultrasonic Fluid Processor (Lab Equipment) | |
| The MITRE Corporation, USA | Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) Beacon Radio (UBR) (Communication Technologies) | |
| NASA Glenn Research Center, USA | Thin Film Ferroelectric High Resolution Scanning Reflectarray Antenna (HRSRA) for Aerospace Communications (Communication Technologies) | |
| NASA Glenn Research Center, USA | The GATR Inflatable Satellite Communication System (GATR 1.8m and GATR 2.4m Antenna Systems) (Communication Technologies) | GATR Technologies Inc. |
| NASA Glenn Research Center, USA | Spring Tire (Mechanical Devices) | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company |
| NASA Glenn Research Center, USA | Low Plasticity Burnishing (Process Sciences) | Lambda Technologies |
| NASA Johnson Space Center, USA | High Altitude Hydration System (Consumer Products) | |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA | Oxidation-resistant Cerium Oxide (CeO2) Coating Method for Stainless Steel Alloys and Nickel Superalloys (Process Sciences) | |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA | Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscopy (TSOM) Method (Imaging Technologies) | |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA | Amonix 7700 Solar Power Generator (Energy Technologies) | Amonix Inc. |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA | Black Silicon Nanocatalytic Wet-Chemical Etch (Process Sciences) | |
| NorthStar Engineered Technologies, LLC, USA | Automated Radionuclide Separation System — Environmental (ARSIIe) (Environmental Technologies) | |
| NovaCentrix, USA | Metalon ICI Ink (Materials Sciences) | |
| NSR Technologies, Inc, USA | Electrodialysis & Ion-Exchange Chromatography Technology to Produce 45%-50% Potassium Hydroxide Solution (KOH) (Process Sciences) | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | Liquid Microjunction Surface Sampling Probe for Mass Spectrometry (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | TRIAD (Telemedical Retinal Image Analysis and Diagnosis) (Life Sciences) | Hamilton Eye Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | Sulfur-Carbon Nanocomposite Cathode Material and Additives for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (Energy Technologies) | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | Mode-Synthesizing Atomic Force Microscope (MSAFM) (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | Ultrasensitive Nanomechanical Transducers Based on Nonlinear Resonance (Mechanical Devices) | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | High-Performance, High-TC Superconducting Wires Enabled via Self-assembly of Nonsuperconducting Columnar Defects (Process Sciences) | SuperPower Inc., University of Tennessee, University of Houston |
| Orthocare Innovations, LLC, USA | Galileo: Amputee Functional Assessment System (Life Sciences) | |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA | Ion Mobility Spectrometer on a Microchip (Analytical Instruments) | Owlstone Ltd. |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA | IncubATR—The Live-Cell Monitor: (Life Sciences) | Simplex Scientific LLC |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA | GammaTracker (Safety and Security) | University of Michigan Kansas City Plant |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA | Propylene Glycol (PG) from Renewable Sources or PGRS (Process Sciences) | Archer Daniels Midland Company |
| Phenomenex, USA | Kinetex (1.7 ?m and 2.6 ?m Core-shell HPLC Particles) (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Phenomenex, USA | Clarity OTX Extraction Kit (Life Sciences) | |
| Quasar Geophysical Technologies, USA | QMax EM3 Receiver (QMax) (Environmental Technologies) | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine EM Laboratory |
| RTI International/Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., USA | Electronics Hot Spot Cooler (Electrical Devices) | |
| Sandia National Laboratories, USA | Acoustic Wave Biosensor for Rapid-Point-of-Care Medical Diagnosis (Life Sciences) | University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center |
| Sandia National Laboratories, USA | CANARY: Event Detection Software (Software) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Sandia National Laboratories, USA | Micro Power Source (Energy Technologies) | Front Edge Technology, Inc. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory University of California, Los Angeles, The Henry Samuel School of Engineering and Applied Science |
| Sandia National Laboratories, USA | Multifunctional Optical Coatings by Rapid Self-Assembly (Thin Film/Vacuum Technologies) | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics |
| SENSIMED AG, Switzerland | The SENSIMED Triggerfish (Life Sciences) | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and ST Microelectronics |
| SGE Analytical Science, Australia | eVol (Lab Equipment) | |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc, USA | syngo iFlow — Dynamic Flow Evaluation (Life Sciences) | |
| Southwest Research Institute, USA | Remote Neutrally Buoyant Sensors (Environmental Technologies) | |
| TEXMAT, USA | Flexible, Large-area, Single Crystal-like, Semiconductor Substrates (Materials Sciences) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific, United Kingdom | Thermo Fisher Scientific Microm HM 550 Cryostat Series with Cold Disinfection (Lab Equipment) | |
| 3M Company, USA | 3M Cubitron II Fibre Disc 982C and 3M Cubitron II Metalworking Belt 984F (Materials Sciences) | |
| Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan | Permanently Engaged Gear Starting Mechanism for Stop and Start System (Mechanical Devices) | NSK-Warner K.K. NSK Ltd. NOK Corporation AISIN SEIKI Co., Ltd. OTICS Corporation DENSO Corporation |
| US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), USA | Corrosion-Resistant Vitreous Enamel Coating for Bonding Concrete to Steel (Materials Sciences) | Pro Perma Engineered Coatings LLC (PPEC) |
| Xtreme Power, USA | Dynamic Power Resource (Energy Technologies) | Antenna Group Inc. |
| Y-12 National Security Complex, USA | Modulated Tool-Path (MTP) Chip Breaking System (Process Sciences) | University of North Carolina, Charlotte InSituTec Moore Nanotech |
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